Thomas Witzel
Vice President Radiomics at Q Bio
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Witzel is a Vice President of Radiomics with 27 years of experience blending deep MRI physics expertise and hands-on engineering to reinvent clinical imaging. He leads a 15+ PhD cross-functional team at Q Bio tackling RF hardware, magnetics, pulse sequence design, inverse problem solvers, and ML-driven reconstruction to rethink the MRI machine from the ground up. Formerly head physicist at the Martinos Center and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, he has run and customized fleets of clinical and research scanners while translating ultra-high-field techniques into diagnostic applications. Equally comfortable soldering custom hardware, debugging Linux kernels, and programming FPGAs, he brings rare full-stack technical breadth across hardware, firmware, and algorithms. Based in Redwood City, he is actively hiring senior Rust talent and focused on accelerating clinical translation to improve diagnostic quality and patient comfort.
27 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Health Sciences and Technology, PhD, Health Sciences and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComputer Visualistics, Computer Visualistics at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Northeastern University
German, English
Github Skills (55)
mri10
ocra10
redpitaya10
decompiler9
xilinx9
debian9
zynq9
machine-code9
libssh9
mca9
medical-imaging8
fpga8
tcl8
vitis8
neuroimaging8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMRI/ocra
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
MRI console
Contributions:36 reviews, 37 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
mriocramagneticresonanceredpitaya
twitzelbos/rhdl
Jun 2025 - May 2026
A Hardware Description Language based on the Rust Programming Language
Contributions:16 PRs, 66 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
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